Neil MacDonald's paintings, on view at Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art in Cleveland, reinterpret the boiling energies of 17th-century Italian Baroque ceiling frescoes that impressed the ...

The baroque ceiling turned out to be a false one that masked a fresco completed by Italian painters Francesco Pagano and Paolo de San Leocadio in 1481.

The critical rap against Neapolitan Baroque painter Luca Giordano has always been that he was an artistic magpie. Extraordinarily prolific, the widely traveled 17th century painter borrowed from ...

Artisans have been affixing plaster decorations to walls and ceilings for centuries--mostly in imitation of Greek and Roman bas-relief.

Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover an exquisite Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered up for more ...

The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, ... Electrician discovers 17th-century frescoes hidden behind false ceiling at Rome's Villa Farnesina.

When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, ... The ceiling of a chapel in the sanctuary of Ocotlán, one of the most beautiful in Latin America, took 20 years to decorate.